Category: Items of Interest

5 Minutes of Juggling-Day VII

Fruits and vegetables may be the answer to commandeering the kids’ toys.

Drops: 9 (all garlic)

Music: (Let Me Be) Your Teddy Bear – Elvis Presley, Walk the Line – Johnny Cash, & Running Scared – Roy Orbison

Coming to bathrooms at quality truck stops and research institutes everywhere

Vending machine as seen on the wall of the gents public washroom at the Cancer Research Institute – Li Ka Sheng Centre in Cambridge. Overnight toiletries, breath freshener & prophylaxis* for £8? Who says science is boring?

*No word on how Americans feel about this brand.

Too Literal?

5 Minutes of Juggling-Day VI

The Juggled VI

Kids blocks once again. It seems that two year olds own a lot more jugglable objects than 30-somethings. Must revaluate my lifestyle to correct this troubling imbalance. Also, must define “jugglable” more broadly.

Tosses: ~600
Drops: 8
Spectator: The Bell
Music: Don’t Know Why – Norah Jones & Why Can’t He Be You – Patsy Cline

Binary Days

According to the all-knowing Twitter-verse, yesterday (10 October 2010) was binary day. If you ignore the “20” part of “2010”, the numerical date (10-10-10) is a binary number. In fact, it is the binary representation of the decimal number 42, which some nerds find particularly relevant for some reason[1]. Continue reading “Binary Days”